Researchers know what people the coronavirus is more likely to kill

[Chris Smith]

• A massive coronavirus Oxford study provides the same tips as previous work on the matter when it comes to the risk factors that can lead to COVID-19 complications and death.
• The study looked at records belonging to 17 million Britons, including more than ten thousand COVID-19 fatalities, and identified the same risk factors are previous work.
• Existing medical conditions, age, sex, and race are all factors that can increase the risk of death of coronavirus patients.

The novel coronavirus pandemic is here to stay for a much longer while than we may have hoped. It's not that we expected the virus to be eradicated anytime soon. That may never happen, and we'll have to learn to live with COVID-19. But the world's coronavirus curve is far from being flattened. In fact, the virus needed just five days to infect its twelfth million people, which is another record that COVID-19 broke. We can't even be sure whether we're nearing the peak of the pandemic globally. Some nations have quashed their outbreaks and are now fighting to contain smaller ones. But countries like America, Brazil, and India continue to report tens of thousands of daily cases.

As we've already explained, the world is much better positioned to deal with COVID-19 patients than in March. Therapies work, and severe cases aren't necessarily doomed to death. But the fatality rate remains high as there's no cure available that can prevent the disease or treat the massive complications. It's up to individuals to protect themselves as much as possible, by social distancing whenever they can, wearing face masks, and washing hands often. The virus can infect anyone regardless of age, social status, or access to high-quality medical care. And it can kill anyone, regardless of comorbidities. That's what makes it so dangerous. But researchers know exactly what kind of people SARS-CoV-2 is more likely to kill, and it's those people who should take all the precautions available to them to prevent infection.

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